Your Hospital Stay

Patients undergoing cardiac or vascular surgery at Stamford Hospital will benefit from award-winning care at every phase. Stamford Hospital has received national recognition for our Planetree Model of patient-centered care … our national award-winning Critical Care Unit, commended for developing a life-saving protocol that has become an international standard of care.

Critical Care Unit

Stamford Hospital's Intensive Care Unit, located in the Whittingham Specialty Care Pavilion, treats critically ill adults with a wide variety of medical and surgical illnesses and injuries.

The intensive care team includes board-certified physicians with specialized expertise in intensive and critical care, numerous medical and surgical sub-specialists, house physicians, and an extraordinary group of nurses and respiratory therapists who work in conjunction with patients' primary care physicians. The needs of the patients and their families are attended to in a calm, gracious setting that is also equipped with the very latest in technology, in order to deliver the highest-quality medical care for vulnerable patients.

In 2004 Stamford Hospital received the Codman Award from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals and Organizations, based on the intensive glucose management program instituted in the Critical Care Unit that resulted in a 29% reduction in mortality of patients admitted to the unit.

This prestigious award is given to one hospital in the country each year. In 2002 the Intensive Care Unit received recognition by the National Coalition of Health Care as one of eleven "best practices" in the nation.

Cardiology Floor

Stamford Hospital's Richard and Hinda Rostenthal Cardiology Unit, opened in 2006, was the first in-patient unit at Stamford Hospital to be designed and built according to the Planetree principles of care.

The environment is designed to promote healing. Lighting is soft, the color palette soothing. Rooms are equipped with flat-screen TVs. There is a spacious, accessible "nourishment area" for after-hours snacking. The nursing station was architecturally designed to be both more functional for the nurses and inviting of interaction with patient and family members. Instead of call buttons, patients are able to contact nurses direction through the hospital's new state-of-the-art Vocera interactive voice communication system. The unit is also designed to help our physicians work more comfortable, with a charting room and private conference facilities where doctors can meet with patients and their families.

There are 24 beds to care for heart patients at all levels of acuity, plus an additional eight dedicated to sicker patients.

For more information or to make an appointment please call
1-877-233-WELL (9355).